^CALLISTE CYANEIVENTRIS. 



THE BLUE-BREASTED TANAGER. 



PLATE VL 



Tanagra cyanoventris. . Vieill. N. D, d'H. N. xxxii. p. 426; Enc. Meth. 

 p. 781. 



Tanagra elegans Max, Reise n. Bras. i. p. 187- 



Tanagra citrinella .... Temm. PI. Col. 42. fig. 2. 

 Max. Beitr. iii. p. 464, 



Aglaia citrinella Sw. Orn. Dr. pi. 6. 



Calliste citrinella .... Gray, Gen. p. 366. sp. 3. 

 Bp. Consp. p. 234. 



Callispiza citrinella. . . . Cab. Mus. Hein. p. 26. 



Chrysothraupis citrinella, Bp. R. Z. 1851, p. 142; Note s. 1. Tang. p. 17. 



Calliste cyanoventris . . Sclater, Cont. Orn. 1851, p. 54 ; Tan. Cat. Sp. 

 p. 11. sp. 7. 



Mas adultus. Supra aureo-flavus ; dorso superiore et medio nigro 

 variegatis: alls caudaque nigris viridi limbatis: infra nitide 

 cyaneus, mento summo et coUo antico nigris : \dtta gulam 

 summam transeunte aurea, capite concolore : ventre medio 

 crissoque ochracescenti-flavis viridi perfusis : rostro nigro : 

 pedibus fuscis : long, tota 5"2o, alse 2*7, caudse 2* 1 poll. Angl. 



Foemina. Marl similis, sed coloribus dilutioribus. 



Vieillot's description of this Tanager given in the " Nouveau Dic- 

 tionnaire d'Histoire Naturelle," and subsequently in his continuation 

 of the " Encyclopedic Methodique," has been, until lately, very gene- 

 rally overlooked, and Temminck's designation — the most recent of 

 all in point of date — is the one usually employed for this species. 

 The bird, although occasionally met with in collections of Brazilian 

 skins, is not nearly so abundant as Calliste tricolor, festiva and 

 thoracica. 



Prince Maximilian of Neuwied, who mentions it in his "Reise nach 

 Brasilien" under the name Tanagra elegans, but afterwards rejected 

 his own appellation in favour of Temminck's, tells us that he met 

 with it first in the deep forests on the river Jucii, which flows into the 



